Create new documents in Word

- [Instructor] Okay in this chapter we're going to…take a look at how to perform some of the most…common tasks you'll probably need to accomplish in Word.…Let's start here from scratch and take a look…at setting up a new document.…Now we touched on this already but I'll open up Word,…and on this initial screen, you can open up…previous documents, or create a new one…from any number of templates.…I'll click the Blank document template,…and this is in fact based on a template…even though it's a blank page,…because blank documents still have…specific default settings.…For example I'll go to the View tab,…and here check Ruler so I can see…the horizontal and vertical rulers.…

These darker gray areas you see…on either end of the ruler represent the page margins.…Notice the cursor that's flashing on the page here…is not at the very edge of the page.…But we can see by the ruler that there's…a one inch margin here.…So blank documents have a default left,…right, top, and bottom margin of one inch.…If I go to the Layout tab,…

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5/18/2017

Making the switch from Google Docs to Microsoft Word can sometimes be a bit disorienting—particularly when you've grown accustomed to the locations of features and tools in Docs. In this course, Garrick Chow helps you get up to speed quickly with Microsoft Word by providing a quick overview of the popular word processing application, and helping you understand the differences and similarities with related apps. He walks through the Word user interface, and explains how to create and format documents in Word. He also covers saving and sharing documents, and using Word Online and the Word Mobile app.